Our work week was fairly standard - I cleaned, Jo went downtown to work. The evenings were spent exercising including one evening playing volleyball on Bradford beach with some friends. I still prefer indoor volleyball but it was a nice evening so being outside wasn't all bad. For the long weekend we packed up and headed to Madison where we visited with Jo's sister, one niece, one grand niece (yes we are now old enough to have grand nieces and nephews), and two nephews along with all their respective spouses, significant others. The weather cooperated since a rainy weekend was predicted but it turned out to only rain briefly one of the days.
Our niece and nephew, Christine and Dan, drove out from Omaha and our Milwaukee nephews (Chris and Angela, Drew and Amy) came with their significant others to make for a mini-family reunion. On Saturday to take advantage of the sunshine when rain was predicted we went over to the University of Wisconsin terrace to enjoy a beer (or two) - where Jo and I spent a few afternoons during our grad school days (very few since we naturally busy in our labs at all hours of the day). Their daughter enjoyed feeding the ducks while the rest of us just enjoyed the beautiful weather, the refreshing breeze off the lake and the youth of all the college kids around us. This was especially true for our niece who is celebrating 40 years in 2014. Not sure how the flower girl in our wedding got to be 40, we must have passed through a multi-dimensional wormhole somewhere without knowing it. We held the birthday celebration Saturday evening with a excellent home-made, decorated chocolate chip cookie.
We did watch the Badger's first game of the season Saturday night and let's just leave it at, it was a disappointing evening. Sunday morning involved a trip to the free-to-visit, Vilas zoo to ride the carousal for some and for all to enjoy seeing the animals, for me the red pandas were a special highlight. I continue to marvel at the wide variety of creatures this planet has and has had on it. Later that day, we made sure to enjoy a brewery tour in Middleton, WI since what is a weekend in WI if you don't have at least one brewery tour. But all too soon, it was Monday and time for everyone to head back home, but we got to enjoy some of Dan's famous, home-made, blueberry pancakes before we left. We came home with a bag full of grape tomatoes from Kathy's community garden which we have been furiously sun drying (ok, really oven drying, since how much sun do we really get and then there is the humidity to discuss).
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